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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
Alcoholism in France.

France is wine country wherein many
American travellers have affirmed that they
saw no drunkenness" But the consump-
ton of alcohol in France reaches large
proportions. NJ. de Pressense, of Paris, in
late number Of the Christian World, of
London, says: "The population of France
consumes annually sixteen milliards of
small glasses (petits rerres) of alcohol at
two sous per glass; that is, 1900, 900, 900
francs spent over the bari 900, OOO, 900
francs of the wages of French workingmen
spent annually in the consumption Of q
drink which in nine cases out of ten is
simple poison. These figures suffice to
show the fatal consequences of this ruin
GUS and degrading vice, the new name for
which is alcoholism, and which has ex-
tended its ravages of late years with alarm
ing rapidlty among the working classes of
France. At the present time there are not
less than 430, 900 drink-sheps in France
10000 in Paris and 100000 in the pro-
vinces; that is, one drink-shop for every
ninety-four inhabitants, including, Of
course, women and children" Naturally
enough he adds: Medical statistics show
that, owing to this spread of alcoholism,
the death-rate and cases of insanity are
continually on the increase, not to speak
of the degeneration of the race which must
result" This experience of foreign wine
country with alcoholism should be warn
ing to the native wine advocates of this
country. -Ndtional Temperance Advocate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
Saloons and Sunday.schools.

Hon. I. E. Clark. of Clarinda, Iowa, in
an address as President of the Iowa State
Sunday school convention, is reported by
the Sunday-school Worker as saying:
when we came here, many of us settling
on the prairies, opened them up. planting
Gods Word and planting His truth, while
the early settlers were making the soil BIOS
som to bring forth the crops, this friend
from Dakota was telling of the work they
were doing there in some localities, and
after heard the story referred to the
fact that was born in the State of Ken
lucky, where man never allows another to
tell bigger story than he if he can help it.
He said in one locality they had established
a Sabbath school right out in the prairie
almost. They had no seats, and 80 went to
o neighborins saloon and brought the beer
kegs for seats for the Sabbath school chill
dren. I told him We remembered the kegs
we'll, that we had emptied his Satanic ma
iesty out of them and had sent them to Da-
kota for them to use in the Sunday-schools
to sit on, but that in Iowa We sat upon the
saloons and were establishing Sunday
schools in their places"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

of sticky beer off the bar. But if let
them remain, said he, in the tone Of ono
seeking compassion, 'they rot the wood
a'They rot the wood, do they?' fiercely
repeated beer bibber. Then what, in
the name Of common sense, does beer do
"Replied the manipulation of drinks: 1T
is beyond me to tell. OF one thing am
confident, and that is mans stomach is
made of east-iron. Elsewise, how could
he Withstand the fluids he pours into it?
Let me show you something. He placed
piece of raw meat ON the counter and
dropped upon it small measure of an inn
ported ginger-ale. In five minutes the
meat had parted into little pieces as though
hacked by dull knife"
1t is not surprising that beer drinke rs
are held by life insurance companies to be
extra hazardous risks.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
The Drink Curse in ireland.

John Dillon, NJ. P, the Irish NATIONAL
ist leader, in late speech in the Hous Sc of
Commons is reported in the Frcemam's
Journal as saying:
eff there was one curse greater than an
other to Irish towns it was the multiplica-
ton of public houses. He saw the honor
able member for South Belfast (AIr. Johns
TOM agreed with him in that (hear, hear).
What had the landlords done to improve
the towns? They had given every encour-
agement to the building of little public
houses, and their own agents, acting as
petty sessions magistrates. had given in
every instance license along with the
lease, in order to stimulate the building of
these little shebeens, and then create by
that means property for the landlords
(hear, hear). BY the granting of licenses to
these little houses by their own agent they
had been able to charge fictitious rackrents
for them. Was that an enlightened way of
extending the towns of Ireland? The land
lord extended his own rents by multiply
ing public houses, until within his own
knowledge he could show honorable men,
beers towns in the west of Ireland, with
population Of 1900, which had ffty-six
licensed houses"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
Sunday Liquor.SelIing.

"A movement has been inaugurated in
Buffalo for the organization of Personal
Liberty Leagues, which it is proposed to
extend throughout the State, the main OBJ
ject of which is to secure legislation to
open the saloons on Sunday afternoons.
The leaders in the movement expect to
make themselves felt as controlling force
in practical politics, and to be able 10 hold
the balance Of power between the Republi-
can and Democratic parties. The follow
ing question will be put by the league to
each candidate, and categorical answer
will be demanded: IF elected will YOU OF
will you not favor opening the saloons on
Sundays after o'clock in the afternoon?"
Any candidate of either party who will not
thus pledge himself in advance in favor of
Sunday liquor-selling the league will Wig
orously oppose. If both candidates Give
favorable answer the members of the league
will take no part as such in the legislative
campaign, but vote n accordance with their
neral preferences in both parties.
Many Germanz are said to be enlisted in
this Personal Liberty League" movement
for opening the saloons on Sunday after
aoons. We do not forget that they elso
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

The car in which Abraham Lincoln
made the journey from Buffalo to Al
bany on his way to Washington for his
first Inauguration is still running OH the
Auburn branch of the New Yorl. Cen
trail Railroad. The ceiling is decorated
with the national flag, and at one end
is q portrait of Lincoln and ct the other
one of Washington. The car, now
known as No. $40, was new in Febru-
airy, 1861, and was decorated for the
purpose of carrying the President. It
is still in good condition and runs reg
ularly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
Insuring Plate Glass.

"Our business is not SO risky as
insurance." said q member OF 81
pany that insures plate glass, pee
We can better protect ourselves az
generalization and our losses are Less
by salvage. Plate-glass windows
general thing, meet with damage
three different causes. Fire des!
the most, many are broken by acel
or through malice, while q fe !:
blown in by wind.storms. It Is
seldom that window is so badly
tered that we can't save some Pc'
of it, and as we make it a rule ~
place all panes that are broken ~,
of paying out the value in cash, wv
readily see that our losses are Nv
heavy, unless q very large pane
shivered into atoms. We buy 1ie
at q good discount and have on
men to put it in. All the glass you
in the outside office is salvage, anu
only in exceptionable cases tha1 W
unable to replace o pane 1iol1 VI e
on hand. Even the scraps are " Y, v;
They are put to many uses. esps i
for shelves in front OF the ea'D
windows in banks and other oincs,'
"Plate glass is one Of the mo .;n,
culiar things in the world. AZ l ns
will stand any amount OF marc u, i i
and then again the least thing WIZ 1T Il
it. I could tell you many queer ,, ~.
in this relation. I have droP r,
heavy hammer on a piece Wl .r;s;
juring it, and when l have NV; = "
show a friend how hard q blow " wv y
stand I have had it grind into po"'
-New York Eve11iaag Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
Medical Declaration Against Alcohol.

MCuACdl DcCIdIutlVu ASullASt AlCOHVIs
The following medical declaration was
prepared by the National Temperance So
ciety in 1873, and the signatures of about
two hundred leading physicians obtained
thereto:
II. In view Of the alarming prevalence
and ILL effects of intemperance, with which
none are so familiar as the members of the
medical profession, and which have called
forth from eminent English physicians the
voice of warning to the people of Great
Britain concerning the use of alcoholic bev
erages, We, the undersigned, members of
the medical profession Of New York and
vicinity, unite in the declaration that we
believe alcohol should be classed with
other powerful drugs; that, when pre-
scribed incidentally, it should be with con-
scientious caution and sense of grave re.
sponsibility.
90. We are of opinion that the use of al
coholic liquor as beverage is productive
of large amount of physical disease; that
it entails diseased appetites upon offspring;
and that it is the cause of large percent
age of the crime and pauperism of our
cities and country.
%. We would welcome any judicious
and effective legislation-State and nation
al-which should seek to confne the traffic
in alcohol to the legitimate purposes of
medical and other sciences, art, and
mechanism"
We are glad to note that this declaration,
with two or three slight verbal changes,
though credited to another source, was util-
lied by the local Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union of Washington ut the time
of the recent International Medical Con-
gress, and that seventy eight signatures
were secured, including some foreigners,
the President, DR.. N. S. Davis, heading the
list.-National Temperance Advocate,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

have such distinguished co-worken as
Mayor Hewitt and Rev. Dr.. Howard Cros-
BY, of this city. II thoroughly organized
throughout the State as is contemplated, it
will doubtless exert very considerable If
not controlling influence in the choice of
the next legislature. That the results Of
such wholesale Sabbath dissertation rs is
proposed by the opening of the saloons on
Sunday afternoons and evenings would be
deplorable in the extreme does not need to
be argued. It behooves all temperance and
Christian men and women to be on the
alert to neutralize and to thwart the in
famous scheme.-National Temperance
Advocate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
Fermented Sacramental Wine.

The Western Temperance Herald prints
from Mrs: Hind Smith, Surrey, England.
the following:
"a lady was noticed by her pastor as
never remaining to the holy communion.
He knew her to be an earnest Christian,
and he was perplexed and troubled. At
last he ventured to ask if she had any spe-
clal reason for thus absenting herself, and
pressed her to speak freely.
"she confessed to him that she dared not
partake; that she could not trust herself to
touch or taste the fermented wine. She
had once been led astray, and she dared
not put herself again into temptation. Her
minister persuaded her that her very self
diffidence was her security, and that Gods
grace would be found sufficient. By his
earnest request she ran the risk-and FELL"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
eyesight and health and never took
dose Of medicine in his life. He had
teeth like ivory and every one was in
his head ct the time of death.

JOHN G. Fremont is "a years old,
and is gathering materials for history
of his life to be written by himself and
his wife. He carries his years with a
step as springy and form as straight
Us they were when he carved path
way over the Rocky Mountains to the
new Ell Dorado forty years ago. His
snowy white hair and whiskers are as
neatly kept as were his blonde locks in
the days when he stole the heart of
pretty Jessie Benton in spite OF her
fathers protests.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
A 'GOppy'' Fishes in Prohibltionist
Waters.

A growing boom for General Fisk, as
the Prohibition candidate for President, is
one Of the signs OF the times. If Repub-
lican prohibitionist has any right to make
suggestion, the writer would remark that
General Fisk would doubtless be the very
strongest candidate that the Prohibition
party can select for Presidential candi-
date. He is gentleman of national fame
already, and has large personal following
IN the country as he has in New Jersey.
his popularity in New Jersey was shown
BY his vote of nearly 10000 given him az
Governor last year. Central New Jersev
Times. o9
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

A WATCH has been invented 10y the
Swiss watehmakers solely for the use
,of blind people. A small peg is set in
the center of each figure. When the
hour-hand is approaching a certain
hour the peg for that hour drops when
the quarter before it is passed. The
person feels the peg is down, and then
counts back to -. He can thus tell
the time within few minutes, and by
practice he can become so expert as to
tell the time almost exactly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

A MAINE woman, who takes pleasure
in her poultry, has adopted a simple
but excellent method for keeping chick
ems at home. She ties a small corn
cob to one leg, allowing it to dangle ut
a distance of about six inches. The
fowl can scratch and get about with
ease, but, it is said, will not attempt to
fly over the palings or squeeze through
q crack
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
Senator Colquitt on Prohibition.

Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, contributes
vigorous article on Prohibition to the
Ne,o Princeton Reviear, in which he saws:
1T matters not, though CLOSING sophis-
try, backed by millions of money, NAV CON
test the field; though phrenetic appetite
may plead and demand; and though a NOR
BID lmpatience of all restraints NAV de-.
claim about human liberty; all will be of
noavall, for Prohibition has reason, RELIGION.
refinement, good order. and peace for It's
advocates and champions.n
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

A MOST remarkable imitation of black
walnut has lately been manufactured
from poor pine, the quality and APP
pearance Of the article being such as to
defy detection except upon very close
examination. TO accomplish this, one
part Of walnut peel extract is mixed
with six parts of water. and with this
solution the wood is coated. When the
material is half dry, "a solution of
bichromato of potash with water is
rubbed OF it, and the made walnut is
ready for use.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

A HARTFORD, Conn.,, man sent his
boy into the country, equipped with q
woodchuck trap and other appliances
sor enjoying his vacation, and told him
to have good time, and be sure to go
to church on Sundays. The first letter
ahe received from the boy said: "Dear
papa, I've caught woodchuck. It was
a skunk. ! did not go to church.
Yours affectionately."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

A VALUABLE disinfecting compound
FOR purifying the atmosphere is de-
scribed in Berlin journal. Oils of
rosemary, lavender, and thyme, in the
proportion of ten, two and one.half,
and two and one-half parts, respect
lively, are mixed with nitric acid in the
proportion of thirty to one and one
half. Simple as it is the vapor of this
compound is said to possess extraor-
binary properties in controlling Often
.sive odors and eflluvia.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

The veteran Russian an I
Wenzel Gruber, who recen ,.i ii
brated the fortieth annlyefs"l. ,ho,
appointment in the medical sc ln1
st. Petersburg, has superinle' and
dissection of 10000 BODIES lilo
written $40 memoirs and panpt'
anatomical subjects.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
A Disarmed Soldier.
DR.. j. G. Holland said.

Dr.. j. G. Holland said:
"A vine drinking clergyman is soldier
dlsarmed; he is not only not worth stray
IN the fight. he is part of the imnedi'
menta OF the temperance army. We have
d, eood many such to carry who ought to
soon will be-" WIZ 'eiS
a;s aias, That there should yet be any such
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

THERE are but two railroads in
thickly populated New England that
make two cents mile their regular
passenger rate-the New York, New
Haven and Hartford and the Concord
roads. It. claimed that many of the
others are perfectly able to carry pas
sengers alta good profit at that rate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

HUGH WHlrrELL, a forty-niner, who
died a few days ago at Alameda, CAL,
at the age of N years, erected his own
monument some years ago, 1t is a
splendid marble shaft, bearing his
name and the dates of his birth and
death, and this epitaph: "He
Travelled over the first railway ever
built in England and crossed the At
lantic in the first steamship that ever
plowed the ocean. He explored many
lands and died in the ,fullness of the
faith. Amen
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

A GENTLEMAN while rowing in boat
recently on Crystal Lake near Ravenna,
Ohio, discovered two springs about
fifty feet apart, nearly two-thirds of the
way across the lake. The water from
the springs boiled up number OF
inches above the surface of the lake,
and it was impossible to keep the boat
in place without it being heavily
anchored. The depth there was six
teen feet.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

EDMUND MONTGOMERY died on Nick
.Iordan's place, near the county line of
-schley, Ga, aged 100 years. He was
an African chief of the Askari tribe and
was taken to Virginia from Africa in
1907, when he was stalwart young
man. He had q large family in Vir-
ginia, and when he died he left his
third wife and twenty-five children in
Georgia. His grandchildren and great
grandchildren are unknown and I'M
numbered. Re had remarkably good
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

SAMUEL ADAMS TURNER, familiarly
known as Squire Sam, is living in
South Scituate, Mass, at the age Of SO.
He remembers Ebenezer Cobb, who
died in the first year of this century,
aged 107 years, and who had talked
with the children of those who came
over in the Mayfower.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

The Boston Herald has been trying
to cater to the tastes of it's Sunday
readers by consulting number of
rich men as to the easiest way of get
ting rich, and printing their answers.
,Barnum said it was quite simple; all
you have to do is to spend less than you
earn, and to "shun rum and tobacco. {"
Gen. Buffers advice was to buy i'm
proved real estate, partly for cash and
partly for small notes, this being the
way he became rich himself Mr..
Faxon, the temperance advocate, adj
vised the practice of '"sobriety, indus
try, economy, and faithfulness.." Mr..
Erastus Wiman warned young men
against speculation, and maintained
that Legitimate trade, the honest, plod-
ding routine of life, vas the true basis
for good fortune, and that if young
man does Rot obtain riches through
these. he wills at least deserve them.
Mr.. Asa Potter advised young man to
"select business that is eongenial to
him, and, while carrying it ON, to be
industrious, close, temperate, and pa-
tent" MI. Miller Pillsbury, "the
actlr king" OF Minneapolis, recon-
maEded exceedingly hard work and O
just estimate OF ores own abilities,
temperance, and economy. Mr.. Bus
sell Sage, for his part, advised the
young man to commit to memory, as he
did, the advice of Polonius to Laertes,
and try to live up to it. Any one who
does this, he saws, is as certain to be-
come wealthy as "the night is to follow
the day."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

IT is suggested BY a Boston yachts
man that an iron keel, hinged upon the
bottom of the boat so that it would
hang perpendicularly whatever the
position of the yacht, would be a
novelty worth trying. Substantially
the same thing has been tried on small
sailboats and it works we'll. 1t consists
of board hung from the ends of out
Triggers hinged to the rail of the boat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
Dangerous Drinks.

The Philadelphia Meas prints the fol-
lowing:
"A bartender plainuvely bewailed the
necessity Of having to rpb CONCEALED drops
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

TWENTY-FIVE years ago the citizens
,of Titchburg, Mass, presented Gen.
kimball with handsome war horse,
which he rode through the entire Lou
isiana campaign. The other day the
General rode the same horse at the an
nual reunion of the veterans of the
Fifty-third Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteers at Fitchburg. The old fell
low is in excellent condition.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

The explorers recently sent by the
government of Mexico to ascertain the
truth Of the report Of volcanic erup-
ton in the Sierra Madre mountains
have returned, confirming the report.
The crater was found in the neighbor-
hood of Bavispa, where the late earth
quake occurred, and was emitting
smoke, flame, and lava. From
the side of the cone streams of lava and
boiling water poured down into the adj
jacent valleys. Vegetation is destroyed
for miles around. Rock of several tons
weight were thrown up by the crater,
which in conjunction with the perilous
assures made by the earthquake rem
dered approach to the crater almost i'm
possible. 1t was with great difficulty
that the travellers got within three
miles of the scene of action. The
dreadful work of the lava is complete.
No life is visible, and the once prosper
GUS village of Bavispa is no more.